by Nathaniel R
Andrew Garfield accepting his prize
The Costume Design Guild Awards were held last night. Teary Andrew Garfield received the Spotlight Award and said costume designers were his favourite to collaborate with. Producers Amy Pascal and Rachel O'Connor where honored as Distinguished Collaborators and Sharen Davis received the Career Achievement Award. The late Anthony Powell was also inducted into the CDG Hall of Fame by Glenn Close in a prerecorded segment. The Costume Designers Guild divvies their annual prizes up into Contemporary, Fantasy, and Period which means that three films get to share honors. This year they went for Coming 2 America, Dune, and Cruella... the latter two are also competing for the Oscar. Winners and comments after the jump...
EXCELLENCE IN PERIOD FILM
Jenny Beavan, Cruella designer
- ★ Cruella, Jenny Beavan
- Cyrano, Massimo Cantini Parrini & Jacqueline Durran
- House of Gucci, Janty Yates
- Nightmare Alley, Luis Sequeira
- West Side Story, Paul Tazewell
Jenny Beavan received her third CDG win and she's also enjoying her 11th nomination at the Oscars for Cruella. She's won two Oscars previously for A Room With A View (1986) and Mad Max Fury Road (2015) and if the 71 year old legend wins a third for Cruella... that's going to be quite a triple! They're all in different genres, from different studios and filmmakers, and take place in totally different time frames!
Most of this period list transferred to the Oscar lineup with House of Gucci falling out and replaced by Dune.
The costume designers of DUNE
EXCELLENCE IN SCI-FI/FANTASY FILM
- ★ Dune, Jacqueline West & Robert Morgan
- The Green Knight, Malgosia Turzanska
- The Matrix Resurrections, Lindsay Pugh
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Kym Barrett
- Spider-Man: No Way Home, Sanja M. Hays
- The Suicide Squad, Judianna Makovsky
Dune brought Jacqueline West her first CDG win and also her fourth Oscar nomination though she has yet to win the naked gold man. Her previous nominations -- she's honored about once every seven years -- were for Quills (2000), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), and The Revenant (2015). In other words, if she doesn't win the Oscar for Dune we'll see her in the 2029 Oscar race!
Ruth E Carter at work
EXCELLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY FILM
- ★ Coming 2 America, Ruth E. Carter
- Don't Look Up, Susan Matheson
- In The Heights, Mitchell Travers
- No Time to Die, Suttirat Anne Larlarb
- Zola, Derica Cole Washington
The Academy rarely nominats contemporary work so none of these film made their list. Congratulations to Ruth E Carter on her second competitive CDG win. The 61 year old designer also received the CDG lifetime achievement award a few years ago.
TELEVISION PRIZES
EXCELLENCE IN PERIOD TELEVISION
- ★ The Great: Seven Days, Sharon Long
- Halston: Becoming Halston, Jeriana San Juan
- The Underground Railroad: Chapter 8: Indiana Autumn, Caroline Eselin-Schaefer
- WandaVision: Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience, Mayes C. Rubeo
- What We Do in the Shadows: The Wellness Centre, Laura Montgomery
EXCELLENCE IN SCI-FI/FANTASY TELEVISION
- ★ The Book of Boba Fett: Chapter 1, Shawna Trpcic
- The Handmaid's Tale: Nightshade, Debra Hanson
- Loki: Journey into Mystery, Christine Wada
- What We Do in the Shadows: Gail, Laura Montgomery
- The Witcher: Family, Lucinda Wright
EXCELLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY TELEVISION
- ★ Emily in Paris: French Revolution, Patricia Field & Marylin Fitoussi
- Euphoria: F*ck Anyone Who's Not a Sea Blob, Heidi Bivens
- Hacks: Pilot, Kathleen Felix-Hager
- Mare of Easttown: Miss Ladyhawk Herself, Meghan Kasperlik
- Squid Game: VIPS, Cho Sang-kyung
EXCELLENCE IN VARIETY, REALITY-COMPETITION, LIVE TELEVISION
- Annie Live!, Emilio Sosa
- Dancing with the Stars: Semi-Finals, Daniela Gschwendtner & Steven Norman Lee
- The Late Late Show with James Corden: Crosswalk Cinderella, Lauren Shapiro
- The Masked Singer: 2 Night Season Premiere, Part 2: Back to School, Marina Toybina & Gabrielle Letamendi
- ★ Saturday Night Live: Rami Malek / Young Thug, Tom Broecker & Eric Justian
EXCELLENCE IN SHORT FORM DESIGN
- The Bold Type: "Cruella" (Commercial), Mandi Line
- Cadillac: Edgar Scissorhands ft. Timothée Chalamet, "Hands Free" (Commercial), Melissa DesRosiers
- Ed Sheeran: "Shivers" (Music Video), Ami Goodheart
- Snoop Dogg's Triller: Fight Club "We're Bringing Boxing Back" (Commercial), Dawn Ritz
- ★ Swarovski: "Welcome to Wonderlab" (Commercial), B. Åkerlund